Scope and Content
About 800 receipted Bills of Goods supplied to Messrs J & W Baker, furniture and hardware dealers of 34 Church Street, Dunstable.
The firm dealt with suppliers from all over the country but the following are some of the Bedfordshire firms concerned:-
In Dunstable:
The Gas Company
S Barnes, carpenter and joiner, 17 Garden Road
Harry Eames, The Forge
Fred Robinson, The Nurseries, Princes Street and Victoria Street
Index Publishers
W Sturman, upholsterer, 134 Victoria Street
W A Small & Sons, house furnishers, 60 Chiltern Road
Willison & Titterson, builders and contractors, Joinery Works, Victoria Street
E Cheshire & Sons, builders, Victoria Villa, Victoria Street
W H Robinson, ironmonger and hardware stores, 37 High Street North
W Watson, builder and contractor, West Street
Scott & Sons, motor and cycle engineers, The Garage
Parrott & Jackson, printers and paper bag manufacturers, Church Street
Edgar Franklin, joiner, builder and undertaker, 27 Church Street and Church Walk
S J Creak & Co, wheelwrights and motor car builders, High Street South
In Houghton Regis:
C & S Bird, wood merchants, 23 Drury Lane
Horsler & Son, The Stores
In Leighton Buzzard:
Birch & Walton, brushmakers, 63 Hockliffe Street
In Luton:
Gibbs & Dandy, ironmongers, 39 George Street and 14 Chapel Street
J Webdale, hardware, glass & china, 21-27 Wellington Street
Brown & Green, ironfounders and engineers, Windsor Street
W H French, grocer and provision merchant, 55 Wellington Street
Charles Bird & Sons Ltd, builders merchants, 112 Collingdon Street
F F Young & Co (Luton) Ltd, glass merchants, Castle Works, Stuart Street
Fay Polishes Ltd, 2 Cowper Street
Some of these receipts are in bad condition as they were originally stored on a spike. they have been arranged into 2 bundles, approximately according to size.